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08-Jun-2009
All of the above, I think. Also indignant.
European elections aren’t supposed to be about national issues, but of course many people vote as if they are. And many people haven’t been voting with their head, or their heart, but with their underbelly and their knees. Perhaps being upset about the results is also a kneejerk reaction, but so be it.
Posted: 08-Jun-2009 | /o_tempora/politics | link | 0 comments
21-Mar-2006
Pardon my ranting.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) has published his party program. In it, he proposes to revoke Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution: [1]
All persons in the Netherlands shall be treated equally in equal circumstances. Discrimination on the grounds of religion, belief, political opinion, race or sex or on other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted.
Posted: 21-Mar-2006 | /o_tempora/politics | link | 0 comments
26-Mar-2005
Writing the post about circumcision made me think about issues of privacy. An attitude (almost wrote ‘meme’ but that means something else in the blog world these days, I think) that’s becoming more and more prevalent in modern society, at least modern Dutch society, is that you don’t need privacy if you have nothing to hide. And, conversely, that if you want privacy it’s a sure sign that you have something to hide.
Posted: 26-Mar-2005 | /o_tempora/politics | link | 0 comments
22-Feb-2005
“I can throw this in the paper recycling, right?” a kid asked when I was kneading bread dough, and when I saw what “this” was I almost said yes, but then I started thinking. Baking bread always does that to me. “No!” I said, “I’ll probably want to write about it.”
Posted: 22-Feb-2005 | /o_tempora/politics | link | 0 comments
14-Jun-2004
I went to vote for Europe. I’ve skipped European elections in the past, but this time there was the little matter of the software patents (scroll down until you find the article with the picture of the demonstration, I don’t know how to link to something that doesn’t have an intro), and the fact that more and more European regulations affect me directly. And then there are the silly regulations, like this one that tries to treat mountain climbers like construction workers, and regulations about food and other pieces of culture that make all of the EU more and more the same. And the lack of opposition against over-the-top US air travel security; one reason that wherever else I go, I won’t go to the United States soon unless I absolutely have to.
Posted: 14-Jun-2004 | /o_tempora/politics | link | 0 comments
Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence, a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on everything to prove its Orthodoxy.
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